Ready for negotiations

West Perry School Board members have been
appointed to negotiation committees with the teachers’ association and
support personnel whose contracts run out in June of this year.

Negotiating with the West Perry Education
Association, the union comprised of teachers, are board members Rick
Smiley, Mary Colledge and Ed Kent. Kent, Jean Rice and Karen Anderson
are on the committee negotiating with support personnel.

The district last ratified a contract with
the education association in July of 2006 for a contract that will run
out in June of 2007. The contract was shortened from an original
proposal which would have run through the 2007-08 school year to give
the board and administration the ability to react to possible changes in
the ability to generate income due to Act 1.

The act may require districts to get voter
approval through a referendum for the board to increase taxes above an
inflationary index.

In other news, the administration
recommended the board approve the early graduation of a number of
students effective Jan. 20, 2007. The students will be given the
opportunity to participate in the junior-senior prom, senior class trip,
senior awards banquet and commencement and graduation ceremonies.